Travelers & Explorers
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2014-06-02 | Author:Martin Dugard

“Courage,” wrote the academic and theologian C. S. Lewis, “is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.” Yet as much as ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers September 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Bill Lee & Richard Lally [Lee, Bill & Lally, Richard]

As the season entered its final weeks, the Super Sox played a game in Bobby Maduro Stadium in northern Miami. Another loss. During the bus ride back to Winter Haven, ...
( Category: Baseball September 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-20 | Author:Steven T. Callan

Chapter Fifteen Outnumbered I Most of the time large deer camps are occupied by friendly, law-abiding hunters, happy to have their deer validated and get a chance to ask the ...
( Category: Memoirs September 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2008-08-30 | Author:Mark Greenside

Three days later my money arrives. I know this because Madame P tells me. She knows because the boy at the bank calls her, giving her the job of explaining ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers August 31,2018 )
epub |eng | 1991-08-29 | Author:Henry Miller

And now, Joey, I’m going to get serious for a moment. I’m going to say a few words about the aeroplane, about that obsession for the air which seems to ...
( Category: Regional U.S August 30,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-08-27 | Author:Michael P. Branch

WHY AM I, a confirmed desert rat, about to offer a paean to cutting trees—to cutting them first down and then up? The answer may be found in the intimate ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers August 29,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-06-03 | Author:Robert Twigger [Twigger, Robert]

Punch-Up at a Funeral ‘Ther are three things that concern the loyal servant The Master’s will, his own vitality and the condition of his death.’ From the seventeenth-century Samurai manual ...
( Category: Travel Writing August 28,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-25 | Author:Myron Echenberg

PART TWO Visits to the Mexican Heartland, 14 May to 10 October 1803: Silver Mines and Active Volcanoes CHAPTER 11 Pachuca, Land of Mines, and Mining Haciendas Pachuca was the ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers August 26,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Markus Torgeby

TANZANIA AFTER EIGHT HOURS in the air, I am desperate to stretch my legs. Peter, the documentary filmmaker, is fast asleep in the seat next to me. He’s going to ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers August 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-08-25 | Author:Deborah Baker [Baker, Deborah]

Victoria Station, London, Wednesday, September 28, 1938, 2:00 p.m. “I am so glad I’m here,” Stephen Spender had said, standing by the stove on the opening day of the 1938 ...
( Category: Historical August 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-23 | Author:National Gallery of Art

3 In Relief A relief is a type of sculpture that is raised from a flat surface rather than being sculpted “in the round.” Coins and medals are examples of ...
( Category: Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions August 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-05 | Author:Dawn French

THANK YOU for dogs (and a little bit also for cats). Honestly, how delightful are they? Forget all the soppy fluffy girlie stuff. No anthropomorphizing. They have their own personalities ...
( Category: Humor August 23,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-08-22 | Author:Dave Metz

NAKMAKTUAK PASS May 5, 2007, ninety-five miles past Ambler I hike hard and steady up the long, steep slope out of the serenity of the Ambler River basin. I creep ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides August 23,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-13 | Author:Patrick Leigh Fermor [Leigh Fermor, Patrick]

There was always a Golden Hart or a White Rose for bread and cheese among the huddle of roofs, or for a coffee and Himbeergeist. Often, half in a bay ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides August 23,2018 )
azw3, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Robert Daley

Part IV  War 38 China War came first to China National Aviation Corporation. In the summer of 1937 savage fighting broke out between Chinese and Japanese troops in the ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers August 23,2018 )